“The Resurrection of the Body”


BIBLE READING:1 Corinthians 15

For centuries skeptics have mocked Christians for their belief in a bodily resurrection.  The mockers pose examples of people who died, and their bodies decompose.  As the body goes back to the earth, its molecules and atoms are absorbed by plants, the plants are then eaten by animals, and the scenario continues until the person's body is scattered into so many plants and animals that it cannot be recognized.  To Christians this is no problem.  We believe the God that created man is able to bring his scattered body back together again.
Modern doubters raise the same questions as the Greeks had in the first century.  "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?" (15:35)   Paul responded that the question was irrelevant.  There are bodies of all types.  God created them with glory of different sorts (15:35-41).  The body of the resurrected will be incorruptible, glorified, and spiritual.
Since there are earthly bodies of different types, does it not follow that God has prepared a heavenly body for all those who have been redeemed?  God is not limited to the atoms and molecules of this earthly life to create a heavenly body.  Some things are difficult to understand and are left to God.  "Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."       (1 Jn 3:2 KJV)                             

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